Manual pr ctico de dibujo t‚cnico; introducci¢n a los fundamentos de dibujo t‚cnico industrial

Historical-documental biography of architect-engineer Antonio Arróniz Topete (b. Jalisco 1858-1926), "the engineer of red bricks". The book documents his life and work, considered to be of one of the most extensive and complete elaborated at the end of the Porfirio Diaz regime and the first decades of the 20th century in the State of Jalisco. The book studies his architectural legacy, such as the Ex Seminario Mayor de Guadalajara, transformed into the XV Zona Militar and now the Secretaría de Cultura of Jalisco, the Escuela de Artes y Oficios del Espíritu Santo (demolished in 1953), the...

Life and work of polemic architect and urbanist Meyer (b. Switzerland), one of the most important functionalists of the 1920's. The former director of the Bauhaus, he worked for the Post-Revolutionary Regimes in Mexico as the director of the Instituto del Urbanismo y Planification from 1942 through 1949, while also becoming the editor of the collective graphic workshop Taller de Grafica Popular (TGP) from 1947 to 1949. Many plates of his architectural designs and the structural diagrams Meyer used for the Bauhaus and in IUP in Mexico.

In diesem Klassiker prC$sentiert Willy Boesiger die wichtigsten Bauten, Projekte und stadtplanerischen Entwurfe Le Corbusiers. Das Spektrum reicht von den fruhen HC$userstudien und -bauten, wie z.B. den "Citrohan"-HC$usern, den Weissenhof-HC$usern, der Wohnsiedlung in Pessac bis hin zu groCen Wohn- und GeschC$ftsbauten wie den diversen Unites d'Habitation und dem Haus des Centrosoyus in Moskau u.v.m., von theoretischen Arbeiten wie der Entwicklung des "Modulor," bis hin zu den ausfuhrlich dargestellten Stadtplanungen z.B. fur Algier, Rio de Janiero, Berlin oder Chandigarh. Jedes Projekt wird...